Society News from the Chronicles


Medine receives Teaching honor from AAR

The American Academy of Religion awarded one of its highest honors to Carolyn Medine: Medine, a University of Georgia professor in the department of religion and the Institute for African American Studies, has been selected to receive the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy…

Students and community service

Next week is spring break and while there's nothing at all wrong with saddling up with friends and heading to a beach to relax, it should be acknowledged that many students will choose to use the week off in a different way: A group of 360 University of Georgia students will forego typical spring…

UGA scientists finds new technology in Ancient 'Egyptian blue'

They describe surprise in discovering that the calcium copper silicate in Egyptian blue breaks apart into nanosheets so thin that thousands would fit across the width of a human hair. The sheets produce invisible infrared (IR) radiation similar to the beams that communicate between remote…

Performances and lectures today

The object of the blog isn't to be a calendar of events, but sometimes the broader message of our news is simply the volume (and tone!) of activity that wends its way through the Franklin College and UGA. It's that time of year again - which, really could be almost any week in the academic year.…

'Django Unchained' roundtable

Was the recent Quentin Tarantino film 'Django Unchained' a revenge fantasy? Revisionist history? Harmless escapism? The only thing not in doubt is that Tarantino is a controversial filmmaker. These and other points will be taken up at the next Cinema Roundtable on the film Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in…